SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future.

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Sep17

SQL SERVER – Delete Statement and Index Usage

Pinal Dave

SQL Performance

SQL Delete, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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The client wanted to know if the index help with the DELETE command as well. The answer is yes, Indexes do help with the DELETE statement.

Sep16

SQL SERVER – What is Spinlock?

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Latch, SQL Memory, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Spinlock

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After reading both the blog post, I got another question from my client on What is Spinlock? Let us discuss today What is Spinlock.

Sep15

SQL SERVER – What is Latch?

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Latch, SQL Memory, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

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Earlier I wrote about SQL SERVER – SQLOS Scheduler and the Process States, lots of people liked the blog post and asked me another question – What is Latch?

Sep14

SQL SERVER – SQLOS Scheduler and the Process States

Pinal Dave

SQL Server

CPU Scheduler, CPU Threads, SQL CPU, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats

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I strongly suggest that you first watch it before we continue on today’s topic of SQLOS Scheduler and the Process States.

Sep13

Where are SQL Jobs Stored? – Interview Question of the Week #293

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

No Comments

Question: Where is SQL Jobs Stored?

Answer: In MSDB Database in dbo.sysjobs table. Let us learn about it in today’s blog post.

Sep12

CONCAT and NULL – SQL in Sixty Seconds #123

Pinal Dave

SQL Video

SQL Function, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Server, SQL String

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I have decided to convert the blog into the video of SQL in the Sixty Seconds. Let us learn about CONCAT and NULL – SQL in Sixty Seconds #123.

Sep11

SQL SERVER – NULL Values and CONCAT Function

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL NULL, SQL String

A lot of SQL in the Sixty Seconds video recently, we will be looking at a very interesting T-SQL CONCAT function and how it works with the NULL Values.

Pinal Dave is a SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and an independent consultant. He has authored 12 SQL Server database books, 35 Pluralsight courses and has written over 5200 articles on the database technology on his blog at a https://blog.sqlauthority.com. Along with 17+ years of hands-on experience, he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of database certifications.

For any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issue send an email at pinal@sqlauthority.com .

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).

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